Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 7,654 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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Charles Harvey (1860-1937)
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Archibald Grimke (1849-1930)
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(1896) Booker T. Washington, “Democracy and Education”
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Charles O. Sampson (1957- )

Explore Global African History

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Mary Jane Seacole (1805-1881)
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British Corps of Colonial Marines (1808-1810, 1814-1816)
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Jeanne/Jane Vialle (1906–1953)
Orishatukeh Faduma
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(1919) Orishatuke Faduma, “Not Failure But Low Aim is Crime”

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

Sissieretta Jones
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From Opera, Minstrelsy and Ragtime to Social Justice: An Overview of African American Performers at Carnegie Hall, 1892-1943
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After the Underground Railroad: Finding the African North Americans who Returned from Canada
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The African American Experience in Italy, 1852 to 2013
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Black Freedom and Social Class in St. Louis, Missouri between the Great Depression and the Great Society

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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